Name: Gardner River

County: Park

Authority Name: Gardner River (Wyo. and Mont.)

Latitude: 450147N

Longitude: 1104201W

Elevation: 5236 Feet

Feature Type: Stream

Origin of Name: Gardner River, next to Yellowstone, is the most familiar and important name in the park. Named for Johnson Gardner, one of the so called free trappers. There are extant articles of agreement between him and Kenneth McKenzie, the bourgeois in charge of the American Fur Company post at Fort Union, relating to equipment and furs for the year 1832. There is also a statement of Gardner's account at Fort Union in the summer of 1832 and a bill of lading of furs shipped on the bull boat "Antoine" from the "Crossing of the Yellowstone," July 18 of the same year.

Source: WPA

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